Posted on 02/22/2016 9:18:46 AM PST by reaganaut1
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Abutting the land Trump hoped to develop were four residences owned and occupied by locals not inclined to move: David Milne, Susan Munro, Michael Forbes, and then-octogenarian Molly Forbes (whose home was on Michael’s land). Trump wanted them out. The tactics he employed toward that end mirrored Vera Coking’s case almost exactly.
Two properties provoked Trump’s particular ire. David Milne’s home, in Balmedie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, was built in 1954. It was then a Coast Guard station, occupying the same spot on which another Coast Guard station had stood, going back to the 1860s. Trump thought it was an eyesore. Likewise a house and several outbuildings owned by Michael Forbes, a salmon fisherman who had left school at 14 to learn his trade, and whose family had lived in the area for several generations. “His property is terribly maintained,†Trump told reporters. “It’s slum-like, it’s disgusting. He’s got stuff thrown all over the place. He lives like a pig.â€
So, in early 2009, Trump approached the Aberdeenshire Council to suggest that Compulsory Purchase Orders (CPOs) be served to several Menie landowners. CPOs are the United Kingdom’s version of eminent domain, allowing the government to seize private property for public use. The council deferred, pending an inquiry.
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ah the shut up.. trump has spoken the thinking ends there.. argument. Well it worked for another high balling truth teller too hope you can figure out to whom I refer but if no there is a university in Utah whit his name.
You must be blind to the hysterics of the Cruzaders here who attack anyone who dares to go against St. Ted. You probably missed the SC primary thread with the Cruzaders maturity on full display.
Conservatives, to their shame didn’t push Bush on amnesty as much as they should have during his Presidency. However, they did prevent him from passing a comprehensive amnesty bill. Conservatives have had virtually no power during Obama’s presidency. However, they were able to stop the gang of eight bill. This is one issue they actually have fought for you on. However, now many populists want to stab the conservatives that have been fighting for them in the back.
What, you haven’t logged in to FR for the last seven years?
I’m not a Trumpet but NRO and FNC have lost all credibility. They are embarrassing and damaging themselves long term with their hysterics and behavior this election cycle.
Care to translate that gibberish?
No sale. Not this time.
The issue is way to big to excuse it away. Not going to happen.
I didn’t know private property rights ended at the US border.
US Laws do. Our laws don’t apply to foreign countries. What is the UK’s law on the subject. If Trump was within the laws of the UK, there is nothing to complain about.
That’s because he is NOT a believer in limited government. But the bots will still vote for him.
Private property rights are not dependent on US Laws, or UK laws.
I read the article three times and don't see any connection to this land grab and Trump unless he's the Australian developer they're talking about.
What this DOES tell me is that in my county Trump COULD have used these laws many times to achieve his goals and yet he didn't... instead he always made offers generous enough to get his way, and everyone walked away happy.
This gives me even more respect for the man.
“Donald Trump strongly believes in the power of government to make rich men richer. He doesn’t believe in reducing the size and power of government. He believes in making it more powerful and under his command.”
If that is true of Trump, which is certainly true of any liberal, why has Trump NEVER ran for any public office that would give him the power, the glory, the renown, that you claim he thirsts for, that drives him? That you claim he is obsessed with?
Throughout history, people of that stripe start at a very young age to force their will upon society by entering the political arena. They become experts in all the cunning artifices that are required to accrue power to themselves. They never actually get out and spend their whole lives developing and running a business. They fixate on how to use words, and how to deliver those words, to deceive.
And, some of the things he says now, he is on video saying the same things he is saying now. (consult Oprah Winfrey you-tube video, 1988).
Sure.
djt acts and speaks much like brigham young did.
of course among many other that promise and bully at the same time, b.young was by no means was exclusive to the style.
In the Trump examples that have previously been cited where he was a developer working for a city, the eminent domain was limited to neighboring an existing project (e.g., the parking lot for the hotel expansion), and he offered fair prices for the property.
In the Florida intra-coastal property seizure, the mayor was out to take the property cheaply.
In a pre-Kelo egregious case of abuse, in 1998 a San Mateo California Open Space agency heard a request by elderly cloistered Russian nuns to build a monastery on their property in the San Mateo hills. Instead of accepting their request, the agency rejected their request and began eminent domain proceedings to seize the land from them.
-PJ
There is a difference between legal and right however. Slavery was legal at one point but it wasn’t right. Similarly, spanking your child is right but may not be legal in some areas.
Trump doesn’t care about right when it comes to making money. It is that lack of principles that bothers many of us.
Certainly... and abuses do happen all over the place. I admire that Trump had only used this in extreme cases rather than as a first approach.
The US Constitution and the subsequent laws within the US protect your right to own your property. Those laws do not protect your property outside of the US.
It's "thanks" to people like you.
You should be ATTACKING the Democrats.
Instead you diminish the party's current frontrunner.
A TRUE DIM-BULB strategy.
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